In Fiji, villages need to move due to climate change

February 15, 2018

Sailosi Ramatu moved within his old village three times before the entire village was moved 2km inland in 2014 [Loes Witschge/Al Jazeera]

Vunidogoloa, Fiji – Just a few metres from the shoreline, a slab of concrete indicates where Sailosi Ramatu’s home once stood. The headman of Vunidogoloa village was born here in 1960 on a river estuary in Natewa Bay on Fiji’s second-largest island, Vanua Levu. Today, all that remains of his childhood home is the concrete bathroom…